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| The study of the eviroment an dhownorganisms react to it |
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| 2 chemical forms of matters |
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| When a physical or chemical change occurs, no atoms are created or destoryed. |
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Degradable
Biodegradable
Slowly degradable
Non degradable |
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| The ability to do work and transfer heat |
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| What are the two forms of energy |
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| Is concentrated and can perform much useful work. |
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| Is dispersed and has little ability to do useful work. |
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| First law of thermodynamics |
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| In a physical or chemical change, we can change energy from one form to anothe rbut we can neve create or destory any energy involoved. |
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| Whenevee energy changes from one form to another, wew alys end up with less usable energy that wwe had intially. |
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| Matter-rrcycling-and-reuse |
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| Mimics nature by reckycking and reusing most of our matter outputs instead of dumping thrm into the environment. |
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| Attemot to boost economic growth by increasing the one-way fkow of matter and energy resources through their economic systems. |
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| Building conceots of recycking and reusing as much matter as possiboe by also reducing the throughput of matter and enegy through an economy. |
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| A measure of how long the pollutant stays in the air, water, soil or body. |
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| The total kinetic energy of all moving atoms, ions, or molecules within a given substsnce, excluding the oveerall motion. |
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| Energy travels in the form of a wave as a rersult of the changes in electric and magnetic fields. |
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| A measure of hoe much useful work is accompplished by a particular input of energy into a system. |
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| A study of connections in nature |
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| What are he levels of organization of matter? |
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Organisms
Populations
Communities
Ecosystems
Biosphere |
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| Name all biogeochemical cycles |
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Hydrolic
Nitrogen
Sulfur
Phosphorus
Carbon |
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| Nonliving components such as water, air, nutrients and solar energy |
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| Living biological componets such as plants, animals, and microbes |
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| The existance, abundance, and distribution of a species in an ecosystem are deteremined by whether the levels of one or more physical or chemical factors fall withing the range tolerated by that species |
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| To much or too little of any abiotic factor can limit or prevent growt of a population , even if all the other factors are at or near the optimal range of tolerance. |
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| Obtain eneregy and nutrientsby feeding on other organisms. |
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| Producers that capture sunlight tonmake complex compunds |
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| More complex nutrients without sunlight |
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| Difference between food web and food chain |
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| Food chain makes up the food web |
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| Illustrates this energy loss for a simple food chain |
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| Net Primary productivity (NPP)- the rate at which producers use photosynthesis to store energy minus the rate at which producers use some of the stored energy through aerobic respiration. |
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| Gross primary productivity (GPP)- the rate at which an ecosystem's producers convoy solar energy into chemical energy as biomass. |
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| Jow do humans affect the cycles? |
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human processes
burning of plants
Mining
Cutting and burning trees |
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| The place where a population lives |
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| Consits of all the populatioins of different species and plants. |
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| Biologist have classified the terresttrial portion of the biosphere. |
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